Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade

Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade

A new piece of technology may soon be coming to South Florida, but is already raising concerns from residents

The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone, which is an unmanned plane equipped with cameras. Drones have been used for
years in Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against terror.

Many residents are concerned that the new technology will violate their privacy.

The purchase of the drone may have been made possible through a federal grant; however, this

I was curious how much one of these costs, and wasn't able to find exact prices. This article
from India though says $200,000 each. This Defense.net
article says the same thing.

That seems like a waste of money. Because it seems to me, forget the hackers, if they float these robot spies over the ghettoes, drug dealers and
punks are just going to shoot them up, for fun or on general principles. If they shoot up five of these worthless things, that's a million dollars
wasted.

Is Miami such a rich community it can waste a million dollars on useless defense industry products? How many more actual policemen would a million
dollars put on the street?

If the same kind of waste and fraud that you see in the defense industry comes to law enforcement, and it already is (useless TSA scanners), forget
it, America is bankrupt, finished, corrupt. Forget it.

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